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...North Adams. "They feel their lives are in disarray." The situation is similar in the mostly white, down-at-the-heels southern counties of Illinois, and in white, working-class areas where the work has disappeared. The underlying reasons for the pregnancies are no different from those in urban ghettos: lack of opportunity, absence of interesting alternatives to childbearing. The girls feel "locked into their stations in life," says Health Official Wood Bennett of southern Illinois. "They're not motivated to break...
Among the underclass in America's urban ghettos, the trends are especially disturbing. Nearly half of black females in the U.S. are pregnant by age 20. The pregnancy rate among those ages 15 to 19 is almost twice what it is among whites. Worse still, nearly 90% of the babies born to blacks in this age group are born out of wedlock; most are raised in fatherless homes with little economic opportunity. "When you look at the numbers, teenage pregnancies are of cosmic danger to the black community," declares Eleanor Holmes Norton, law professor at Georgetown University and a leading...
Wilson is part of a new breed of black academicians and leaders who have begun to acknowledge teenage pregnancy as a major issue for the black community. The National Urban League has declared it its No. 1 concern and last spring, on Father's Day, launched a program aimed at teenage boys, the often forgotten partners in the problem of teen pregnancy (see box). Says League President John Jacob: "We cannot talk about strengthening the black community and family without facing up to the fact that teenage pregnancy is a major factor in high unemployment, the numbers of high school...
...raggedy neighborhood; the budget was not great ($4.8 million); students and faculty yearned for a physical sense of community. Gehry's solution is a small miracle. Using his customary sorts of raw materials--galvanized steel, plywood and stucco--he has virtually invented a new form of late-20th century urban classicism, simultaneously gritty and dignified...
...capital of exuberant quirkiness, San Francisco municipal authorities agreed on a set of laws meant to codify the city's piquant urban character. The Downtown Plan, a radical and ambitious zoning scheme, will protect dozens of fine older buildings from demolition, severely restrict the amount and bulk of new highrise construction and virtually outlaw the modernist office block...